GRANGERLAND – With Conroe and Caney Creek tied at 5 in the third set of their non-district match on Tuesday evening, Tigerettes coach Charvette Brown burned a timeout. But there wasn't much talking to be done. Instead, she instructed her players to get some extra conditioning.

"She called the timeout, and she said, 'Ten lines to your chest,'" senior middle blocker Victoria Ratcliff said, explaining how she and her teammates raced back and forth across the court, dropping to the ground at each turn.

Added senior outside hitter Neena Brenson: "From that spot, we knew that she wasn't giving up on us, but we have to learn how to take control of ourselves and get out of that type of bind that we were in."

The Tigerettes did just that.

Despite facing a five-point deficit later in the set, Conroe found a way to rally and pick up its first victory of the season, winning 25-12, 25-17, 25-15. And while it may not have been the team's best performance, walking out of the gym with a tally in the win column was satisfying nonetheless.

The Tigerettes (1-1) opened the season with a loss to a tough Klein team on Monday.

"I'm definitely happy about the win, but we've got a lot of work to do with cleaning up our game and being consistent and playing a full match," Brown said. "I'm ready to get in the gym for practice so that we can fix those things and move forward."

Conroe jumped out to an early 6-1 lead in the first set before Caney Creek (0-1) fought back with a run of its own to pull within striking range at 9-7. But the Tigerettes responded by scoring six straight to gain some breathing room and later finished off the game by scoring the final five points.

Game 2 was much closer, as the teams found themselves tied eight times. The last stalemate came at 16-16, and Conroe scored nine of the final 10 points to claim a 2-0 lead in the match.

Caney Creek led by as many as five points at 15-10 in Game 3, but the Tigerettes once again finished with a flurry, collecting 15 straight points to put the Lady Panthers away.

"We just made too many errors and let the errors get the best of us," Caney Creek coach Kathy Stephenson said. "I think it's a good assessment of what we need to work on. We haven't seen [any opponent] serving that hard, we did an OK job passing the ball the second and third games. Defensively, we've got a lot of work to do."

Ratcliff and Brenson led the attack for Conroe, finishing with 10 and eight kills, respectively. Brenson recorded a double-double with 12 digs, and Ratcliff protected the net with five blocks.